Brain dump

Family and how it is important.

In natural disasters, people always think first and most about their families.

God uses families for organization, so we can learn to love others more than ourselves.

Parents have a great responsibility. They are like the switch on a railway track and one little action can have a profound impact.

Service is so significant to teach. Like Savior washing the feet of his apostles. From John 13.

People with differences can still be loved and shared with without loosing any of our faith... the example given was of the Samarian Woman at the well who Jesus dealt with kindly.

Our example teaches a whole lot more than we can imagine. So, we are passing on who we are, which means even things we do not say will be taught and effect who we become.

Prayer is our personal  time with God. This needs to be shared with our children,  so they know where they can always turn for help when needed. Regardless.

It is ironoc that a new struggling parent is trying to teach a group of seasoned parents and empty nesters.

Children are a heritage of the Lord.

***Teach the gospel in your home. Occasionally, use words.

No safe age limit for immorality, like immoral programing.

How you treat your spouse will set a pattern.

Sunday School

Why did we come to the Earth?

Jesus and Adam created the earth under the direction of Heavenly Father.

World was created through priesthood power. All men have the same power. It is there, but do not have the faith to do it.

All things were created spiritually first.
My mother told me about a type of photograph that even after you cut a tree leaf it is still there. Matter is not created or destroyed.

Heavenly father was present when man was created, because he was that important to him. It is like a father of a child being present when a child is born, but the mother can do it completely without him, so Jesus could have done this on his own.

We have been a cool playground to live on.

God loves us so he made us chocolate.

"...All things are numbered unto, for they are mine and I know them..."

(Skeletal and muscular systems of dinosaurs perfectly formed for our earth).

Why did you get married?
Marriaged is supposed to make us happy.

The couple is the only truly significant sealing.

Christ like love maybe not intended for our spouse.

Very romantic song lyric... "Jeremiah was a bullfrog."?
No. But he was a good friend of mine.

Most romantic songs are self-centered.

Mom, not sure if it is me or not me. We have a hard time giving up the fantasy that the mom will always take care of everything me needs. There is a moment when we realize that a not me is dedicated to the well being of me.

Love is more than physical, emotional or mental.

You need the pain to call the love *like a diaper change. So, it is a part, like C.S.Lewis said, of the joy.

Physiological states are not sustainable, only occur in the falling in love stage.

We do not even conciously know why we fall in love. Not sustainable nevessarily, it is labeled twitterpation.

We are married to someone else. They will never be "me".

Story of Golden Egg, where we get all we need, but not everything we want. But, it all works.

Provide element of safety.

Be save to and with.

Coherent response, they took in what the other said and responded with an adequate response. Even if it is negative.

Someone falls out of love when someone else is involved, like seeing the castle and wanting it.

ALWAYS RESPONDING to a bid for interaction.

The fact that we get gifts for another according to what we have learned is desirable. But, it is like buying a bowling ball with you name on it for your wife for valentine's day.

If you expect a desire to be met, you need to communicate what you want.

Great idea Make a list of things you expect your spouse to do for you. And have them choose two and it is not hinting when you notice.

Someone brought out how often, they give with the intent of what they get and not a genuine display of love, like how my children say they love me because they hope to gain something.

When we get older the ways we cope or disappear like housework or child rearing.

Hug until you feel it. Four ways...

Concerning brain dumps

There are many things I absorb in much greater detail than I express, and sometimes the things I write are not even what is being discussed. And perish the thought that I am often just taking seconds from the meeting. Often, what I write down might not even be recognized by the one it looks like said it. They merely point my thoughts in a direction.

I am mostly noting my impressions and take full blame for the result, unless it is praise, then, praise goes to the orginal generator of such thoughts,maybe director. The teachers and speakers are my conduit or means to a greater conclusion. I  always happy to have been at the meetings.

Brain dump

Bishop thanks others for sustaining. One could tell that he meant it.

Who is your neighbor?
We need  to answer this, if we are to achieve unity.

Some people just naturally do things that,need to be done.

All the ways the temple was a part of our lives was enumerated.

How excited I am that my wife's grandmother got to see the next life?

Fast is like paying for someone's meal as if it were your own.

Law of fast is not a,matter of finance but a matter of faith.

Law of fast, one should read and study Isaiah 58.

More than just not eating, but strengthens the spiritual or divine in us.

It is coupled with prayer. And is a form of work to seek out the blessings that would be ours.

Fasting is a similation of your ability to resist temptation.

What does it mean to be sanctified?

To be free of sin, pure. We need to achieve that. The best way is to honestly fast.

Expirament on the word.

We can fast at anytime, and we do not need to wait until fast sunday.

Why was agency important?
We need to live earth life because

Story of sign that warns of potential damage and the signs are often ignored. The commandments are like unto it.

How teenagers always hate the controlling power of their parents. But, it is very helpful.

Reminds me of a very good video on a teen who realizes that the rules of their parents were actually going to help in the long run.

Like talk of a guy who was talking about break wall, and he was given binoculars to see more than he would have been able to.

It comes down to praying to figure out which is best when making a choice, what is best changes.

Binoculars are helping us to see a problem that we must solve.

Prophets are alot like binoculars and they offer a testimony that someone is speaking, and also that following that omnipotent power will make us happy.

Feel light in our life and then share it with others.

we out to put as much effort into gaining a testimony as we do finding a rare gem like a diamond.

Story of fog stopping someone from swimming the English channel. We suffer because of like stumbling blocks.

If we have a strong testimony we will have less interest in things that fog up our way.

We need to define where our alliegance goes.

Never discredit the work done in our homes.

We are motivated by things. Our motivation is taught to us and we must need to remember what our life should be.

Ask for help in our morning prayer to have ballance restored.

Oars in a boat represent ballance, opposed to a sail that is going to always blow us in the right direction.

Distractions can become motivations. Weaknesses can become strength.

Sometimes we need to cut down to manageable levels "do not run faster than is required."

Change the water to wine, the Savior has the power to do that. The servants had no reason to believe but, they obeyed.

When we sacrifice we are sanctified, that is seen visibly in many movies where a priest is seen to torture themselves to be holy.

There is a power that comes from taking the sacrament. Give your will to our Heavenly father. Be reminded of  the Savior's  sacrafice for us.

In the analogy of the turning of water to wine. It can be plain but turned not into a needed thing, but the best thing.

Heaven won't  be heaven without my wife.

That is it! The more I truly immerse,myself into the things that are true, the more I see so many things I only hope to be true are not.

Know better by serving.

I am a child of God and so________.

Brain dump

Elder speaking served in the West Indies. Met with a guy who explained how lots of people try to bend his understanding towards their faith, but he lacked humility and claimed that he already knew it all

Eventually, and gradually became humble enough to learn about what he did not know.

We can feel truth from Bible, but there is more and it is not everything and when we are humble enough we can learn so much more.

The church was not allowed in an area, really, but with patience and humility a new political leader was chosen and the church was able to be taught there.

High conselsor served his mission in minnesota.

Story about the game of pickle ball and his experience with humility .

Humility is not a popular or saught after trait in the world. But, blessed are the meek.

Joseph smith is said to have publically called Brigham Young to repent, and Brigham was humbled instead of resentful.

Humble is not to think less of yourself, but to think of yourself less.

Pride comes from not success but being more sucessful than others. It is comparitive.

Pride turns off priesthood but humility turns it on.

If we ever thought that we have humility then we do not.

Being able to serve in any calling not just great ones.

We can do as much good in any capacity in how we serve not where.

Jesus Christ, Our Chosen Leader and Savior.

Everyone of us thought that we,were going to make it

Power would be his as Lucifer's plan.

But, living on earth would have been pointless.

And this we saw also, and bear record, that an angel of God who was in authority in the presence of God, who rebelled against the Only Begotten Son whom the Father loved and who was in the bosom of the Father, was thrust down from the presence of God and the Son,
26 And was called Perdition, for the heavens wept over him—he was Lucifer, a son of the morning.
27 And we beheld, and lo, he is fallen! is fallen, even a son of the morning!

From D&C 76

If a son of the morning could fall, any of us could, if we are not sufficiently humble. Story about a newly returned missionary who left the church.

The way we fight against evil is through ideas expressed in words.

Plans can be thwarted but then God always triumphs.

Jesus was needed as a savior, because we need to be helped, if anyone expected to suceed.

A good idea for new years resolution is to list of what we will do less of on one hand and more of on the other.

Every once in a while, just pray where you talk to God, but do not ask for anything.

We can give the correct answers but not do them.

Stand in Holy places. Doing the right things.

Reading our scriptures is peaceful.

To move forward we must let go, like on monkeybars.

Relief Society .

Peace

Worldly peace? "I do not think the world ever has given us peace" but it a most saught over thing.

SHALOM greet and dismiss that means peace.

Pres. Hunter admitted that he personally did not understand eternity. But, we all know that the only way to achieve success is through knowing Jesus Christ.

Preventitive measures are taken often because of peace is desired.

We go to away to find peace.

Go to the temple.

Scriptures bring peace.

Repentence brings peace.

The Savior is the only Real source of peace.

Contentment is synonymous with peace. I wondered how it had not been mentioned yet that the place we feel peace is the temple, but we need to find a way to turn our daily lives and home a place to be content when not in the temple.

Sometimes we make the wrong decisions when we do not take our medicine.

Satan will do anything he can to stop things from happening like members attending the temple.

People who were healed were desperate to have the Savior's help. I think of Alma the Younger and how he had a horrible trial and it needed to be so that he realized that Christ was truthfully the only hope.

Now, it has been mentioned multiple times the movie Let it Go. Or more specifically, the words "let it go" and how they sort of mean peace, and a need of our Savior.

Hiking story like peter walking on the water, if we cling to the "chain" or keep focus on the savior, but inevitably we look down and falter, we ought not ever look down.

Brain dump

Ha ha ha I wrote for title Brain Dumb on accident. Bout right, huh?

Prayer is like Skyping God but without the video.

Humble as a verb is to destroy the will of the thing.

A humble person prays daily constantly, although they might desire to be independent they realize that cannot actually do everything by themselves.

a girl who prayed for how to improve her life. The spirit answered,"get up and clean your room."

I told my son that if he wanted to be happy, then he needed to learn what they taught him in Sunday School, then he said, "No. Going home would make him happy." I told him that I was writing this, and he asked what I was doing, and he suprised me by saying "No, do not write that where anyone will read it, at least, cause it is important to go to class and learn all that we can, cause our teachers know how to get back to Heaven."

Story about fishing, we try to catch to reach our hands into murky darkness to try to grab a slippery thing with sharp teeth. But, then when it happens the boys fishing faced a greater trial of trying to get back up.

Sugar & flour is cheaper to buy in bulk.

Most important thing is to love God, everything hangs upon this.

Knowing factually that every person is a child of God encourages us to being kind to one another.

Falling skies, the man realizes that you protect your own family.

Tried to teach a young boy to try to teach him to want other things, story of king of France's son, who would not do anything or seek after things and he was asked why. He said it was because he was born to be a king. king Louis xvi?

All civilizations have a belief that we need an outward help. We have been told that we would recognize truth when we come across it.

What talents do we have and how have we used them to help others.

A woman sing as her Everyone knows and requests she use her talent and when asked if she gets tired of singing, she said, that is her stewardship to praise God.

Those called to do things were foreordained to do things. If they do not, it will be done, nonetheless. It us THAT important.

I never before thought about how to stop Christianity Christ was murdered, but it went forth anyway. Then, with Mormonism, Joseph Smith was murdered and the church survived anyway. Maybe this is a different voice telling those who hear it that way as clearly as if told in plain language that he intends men to kniw about him and know the truth about howvto get to him.

In premortal life things were learned that we do not even think of, but they, as the poet said, trailed like stardust with us from Heaven.

There was a war in Heaven, it was said it was a war of words, but I think it was a war of of life or death, but life or death was different.

I have a feeling like God is trying to figure out what step I missed along the way, cause I keep going "back to the basics". Each time I pray, it is like there is something for me to be told but I need to be prepared for it. Now, I am being met with Jehovah witnesses and the more I learn, I think, it is all true, but it does not go as far as Mormonism.

We have routines for everything like brushing teeth, but we need a routine for including the Savior on our lives.

Stronger families are built by being stronger ourselves.

If we trust then we realize that we do not need to take everything upon ourselves.

"I started to imagine the savior less than one who praises or condemns, but not someone who helps."

Repent of one thing at a time.

The church provides a easier to travel path to where we want to go.

Look at how the savior interacted with others.

I often think of a photo where Jesus is holding a larger toy behind their back, but the child doesn't know that and they cling to their toy which is not nearly as good. Maybe that is like giving up our sins for his intended reward, which was ours, too if we could remember.

First brain dump of 2016

Blessings of preisthood solidifies the fact that this chapel is an ordinance room. The prescence of the Godhead can abundantly felt.

Prayer is surely really a way to speak to God, He can actually hear and feel our needs.

Scriptures are literally food for us. We need to feast and hunger for those truths.

New begining is possible because of the love of God and a savior, whom through we can be forgiven.

Our Family is our ward, it helps us live more perfectly.

To know principles we need to testify and teach them before we fully believe them.

The Godhead is called a presidency. A thing we all sort of know somehow, although, technically, I have never heard it before.

Become yoked to Christ. It is cemented through temple worship.

Temple square felt better than Salt Lake City, even if cold, felt a warmth from attending the temple.

Maybe did not get things right so I got called back regarding calling. I will always accept it, even if I joke about it.

When someone hits or offends, they must hug and apologize.

Story of Joshua Bell's performance, would people appreciate so n ething valuable if it is not marketed as such.

Lesson on Exultation,

Requires being seperated from him and see if we would still obey if left to ourself. Like we do with our children.  Reminds me that time Nick got so furious and asked me why I would leave a child to take care of themselves.

Exultation is becoming as God.

What does the word condescension mean?

I do not live according to everything I believe, but I know many things are true.

The human body is most amazing gift from God. The body is diverse, but still looks like us, like our Heavenly Father.
Our bodies should never be taken for granted, use it properly.

Hand out that clearly defined difference between immortality and eternal life.

I found not mentioned exultation in any scripture than Book of Mormon.

An earthly father would not place a limit on us he actually desires we grow up like him.

To be exalted we must
1)be baptized
2)receive the holy ghost
3) recieve preisthood
4) temple endowment
5) sealed

Spirit of Elijah is so strong that if you start doing genealogy you cannot stop it.

We can loose hope if we look at and compare the position of others when on the path. It really does not matter. Growth is often unperceptible.

20 Wherefore, ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life.

Shared excerpts from church news on this scripture. It was suggested to look into the concept of it.

Press forward- harkens back to things the pioneers endured. It entails that force is used to act upon something to follow through a course of action.

We have to just dig in our heels and do things though there are more things that need to be done than there is time to do them.

The Holy Ghost will tell and show us what needs to be done.

The tender mercies come through people placed in our lives. They are not a coincidence but are evidence of God's love for YOU.

It is nice to recall the feelings we had when we read a thing.

If we really truly believe that the scriptures come from God we will want to know what he is saying, and further if we believe that he knows us, won't our choice to be searching show some sincerity and he will help us understand his ideas.

"men's hearts will fail them...